The Xen Project™ – hosted by Xen.org – is the home for several virtualization related open source
projects and XEN PROJECT is the new name for the XEN open source community.
The Xen Project™ develops virtualization technologies powering the
world's largest clouds in production and
is the foundation of many commercial
products. Technology developed by the Xen Project™ powers public clouds such as Amazon Web Services,
Rackspace Public Cloud and many others. Examples of Xen based server products include Huawei UVP,
Oracle VM and XenServer. Examples of client products and appliances include QubesOS, XenClient
and Netscaler. The Xen Project™ is 10 years old, and the technology it
has created is mature and its stability and versatility is second to none.

Xen Projects

The Xen Project™ has created a number of open source technologies for specific purposes:

The Xen&reg Hypervisor is the open source standard for hardware virtualization and the
foundation for all solutions hosted on Xen.org. — Learn More

The Xen Cloud Platform is an enterprise-ready virtualization platform based on the
Xen&reg Hypervisor, adding further functionality and many integrations for cloud, storage
and networking solutions. — Learn More

Xen ARM is a Xen based Hypervisor that targets embedded and mobile devices on
the ARM architecture. — Learn More

If you are unsure, which Xen project is best for you, you may want to read the
Xen Overview document which introduces Xen's
architecture, components and some of the key choices you will have to make.

Open Source

Software hosted on Xen.org is, and always will be, open source. The code is licensed under the
GNU General Public License (GPL2). For more
information check the Xen.org legal page. Projects hosted on
Xen.org are developed by a world-wide community of individuals from around the globe that follow a
governance process based on openness, transparency and meritocracy.

Xen Hackathon, Dublin, May 16 & 17

I am pleased to announce the next Xen Hackathon. The Hackathon will be hosted by
the Ganeti team at Google and takes place on May 16-17, 2013 at Google's offices in
Dublin Ireland.

Xen Events: Save the dates!

We are still establishing the Xen event calendar for 2013. We are also looking for a vendor who would like to host a XenSummit in the US in May or June, 2013.
Please contact community.manager at xen.org, if you would like to host a XenSummit.

However, the following dates and locations have been agreed already. More information to follow in due course:

XenSummit EU, Edinburgh, UK: October 24 & 25

Recent Events

FOSDEM '13, February 2 & 3, Brussels, Belgium

Also check out George Dunlap's presentation on Securing your cloud with Xen's advanced security features

XenSummit North America 2012

XenSummit has been a tremendous success this year. Thank you to all theMay 16 & 17 speakers
for contributing and to all the attendees for making XenSummit an interactive and fun conference with lots of discussions. You can find
presentations on slideshare and videos on vimeo.
We will also embedded both in the agenda. The slides are also available for download as
zip file.

It is becoming a little bit of a XenSummit tradition that our large users such as AWS and Google
shared how they use Xen at XenSummits. This year, Chris Behrens from RackSpace cloud talked
about Scaling Xen within Rackspace Cloud Servers:

Travel Stipends for Presenters

If you have something to say about Xen – as a developer or user – and would like to submit Xen talks, but cannot afford the travel,
please contact community.manager at xen.org before you submit a talk proposal. We can usually find a company in the Xen eco-system
that will sponsor talks given by community members.